About us

Girish Patil is the Editor-in-Chief for jobonship.org. He has worked on ships since 1979 and has 25 years Chief Engineer and Technical Superintendent Experience
Jobonship.org is considered as the most trusted shipping employment website.  Started by an ex seafarer.  Jobonship.org provides information about all the companies providing jobs for seamen on ships, offshore and ashore.  More and more new companies are also added whenever information is received. Other competitors websites provide information about very few shipping companies who are paying them for their advertisements.
Now the most liked website by shipping companies and seafarers, jobonship.org stand as the most preferred site for shipping employment search  according to study by Alexa and Google page rank.  Backed by  IT professional Mr. Amarendra Yavatkar who is M.Tech from IIT Mumbai and M.S. from MIT, Boston, jobonship.org has become the most popular website within short time.
Girish J Patil, the founder and editor of jobonship.org, has done Electrical engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering (University of Mumbai) in 1977 and D.M.E.T. in 1978.  Started career in Shipping Corporation of India. Then joined Anglo-Eastern as third engineer.  Those days Anglo-Eastern was very small company having less than 10 ships.   Worked in Anglo-Eastern for about 10 years out of which 4 years as Chief engineer. He left Anglo-Eastern to start some business but like all seafarers again went back to sea and worked in KGJS, Zodiac in the capacity of Chief engineer. Worked in Doehle Danautic as Technical and Fleet personnel superintendent where he conceived an idea of starting community website which would give information about all existing companies providing jobs on ships.   The website to show unbiased reviews about companies which will help seafarers in selecting right career and also help ship owners in selecting right candidates.  The website will abstain from giving information about the training institutions which have mushroomed all over and which are charging exorbitantly to poor jobless candidates and then abandon them without any job guarantee.  
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